Patrick Ness Quotes

Folk tales and myths, they've lasted for a reason. We tell them over and over because we keep finding truths in them, and we keep finding life in them.

Patrick Ness

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: author
  • Nationality: american
  • Birth: October 17, 1971

Topics

LifeFindingReasonOverTellKeep

I've had so much plastic surgery, when I die they will donate my body to Tupperware.

Joan Rivers

DieBodyWillPlasticSurgeryMuch

People get comfortable with technologies.

Jennifer Doudna

PeopleComfortableGetTechnologies

I hate horror movies.

Melissa Auf der Maur

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Classically, throughout all of our history, the movies in times of crisis have turned to military figures as heroes, because they are the guardians of our nation.

Rod Lurie

HistoryCrisisMoviesNationHeroes

In the early 19th century, they tried selling soap as healthy. No one bought it. They tried selling it as sexy, and everyone bought it.

Rose George

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I'm not a big believer in our copyright laws; I find them way too restrictive.

Michael Moore

FindWayCopyrightBigLawsOur

There is no limit to suffering human beings have been willing to inflict on others, no matter how innocent, no matter how young, and no matter how old. This fact must lead all reasonable human beings, that is, all human beings who take evidence seriously, to draw only one possible conclusion: Human nature is not basically good.

Dennis Prager

NatureGoodSufferingHuman Nature

The first thing that happens is that you're overwhelmed by so much attention. It's just so unnatural. Only people who've been in that position can realize what it's like. I mean, you have to be there.

Chevy Chase

PeopleAttentionYouOverwhelmed

Better a diamond with a flaw than a pebble without.

Confucius

BetterWithoutDiamondFlawPebble

While Fidel Castro used to deliver his marathon seven-hour speeches in Havana, Cubans used to joke that if Spanish lacked a future tense, their leader would be speechless. He was only fluent in broken promises, they lamented.

Brin-Jonathan Butler

LeaderFutureBrokenPromisesHavana

I wanted to write about what we were doing at the French Laundry, the recipes and the stories.

Thomas Keller

DoingLaundryWriteRecipesStories

You can't learn how to act; you can only really learn it through experience and practice and really finding what your voice is and what you want to be as an actor.

Toby Stephens

ExperiencePracticeVoiceLearnYou

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